Richard Botelho

Richard Botelho is the author of four books, The New Individualism: Personal Change to Transform Society, a non-fiction social commentary, used in over 100 colleges and universities, favorably reviewed in The Midwest Quarterly and other academic journals, and winner of the S.C.P.H.C. Gold Award for Philosophy in 1996; Leah's Way, his first novel, which received a rave review in the February 1st, 2004 edition of Library Journal; Reason for Existence, a science fiction and philosophy novel; and the non-fiction title The Full Extent: An Inquiry into Reality and Destiny, a finalist for "Book of the Year" in Foreword Reviews. He has a B.A. and M.A. in Government from California State University, Sacramento, graduating with honors. His thesis included interviews with intelligence community and national security officials, including a former CIA Director. That process enabled vast insights into the structures and functions of society, specifically the confluence of politics, economics, power, technology, security, order, religion, and transformation. He is a professional affiliate of a number of forward thinking organizations, including The Galileo Commission, World Futures Studies Federation, The Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies, The Independent Institute, The Aspen Institute, and Open Sciences. He is considered a leading advocate for a new paradigm challenging the rigidity of scientific materialism, and considers this an extremely important aspect of his writing.